As part of a counterargument against this concept, Blackburn gives the example of a man who worries that car tires will become square after January 1, 1984, suggesting that conforming to "bent rules" is more than just a dispositional fact, indeed having real behavioral implications. The epistemological problem of other minds can be phrased as the suggestion that our beliefs about other people's mental states constitutes one of these. One of its conceivers used the example of a diary about a sensation initially denoted S, and questions whether the author would be able to continue to make the same connection between the sign and sensation without a "criterion for correctness," which would have
As part of a counterargument against this concept, Blackburn gives the example of a man who worries that car tires will become square after January 1, 1984, suggesting that conforming to "bent rules" is more than just a dispositional fact, indeed having real behavioral implications. The epistemological problem of other minds can be phrased as the suggestion that our beliefs about other people's mental states constitutes one of these. One of its conceivers used the example of a diary about a sensation initially denoted S, and questions whether the author would be able to continue to make the same connection between the sign and sensation without a "criterion for correctness," which would have to be external. For 10 points, name this construct developed by Wittgenstein in Philosophical Investigations, the possibility of which he doubted because its creator couldn't possibly understand it.
As part of a counterargument against this concept, Blackburn gives the example of a man who worries that car tires will become square after January 1, 1984, suggesting that conforming to "bent rules" is more than just a dispositional fact, indeed having real behavioral implications.
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